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foollike

foollike adjective: resembling or characteristic of a fool.

Adjective

foollike (comparative more foollike, superlative most foollike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a fool.
    • There are several things on Lear's mind here: sexual loathing, revenge, a hallucinatory, at times satirical, vision of court life and of himself as king, a foollike insistence on unpleasant truths in his conversations with Gloucester, […]2014, Lawrence Danson, On King Lear, page 39

Forms of foollike

comparativemore foollike
superlativemost foollike

Origin of foollike

From fool + -like.

Questions about foollike

What does foollike mean?
Foollike means resembling or characteristic of a fool.
What part of speech is foollike?
Foollike is an adjective.

Words near foollike in the dictionary

  1. foolishly
  2. foolishment
  3. foolishments
  4. foolishness
  5. foolishnesses
  6. foollike
  7. foolocracies
  8. foolocracy
  9. foolometer
  10. foolometers
  11. foolosopher

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